A Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Gardening Flower Unloved Weed

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American - Writer
November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

John Galsworthy

A flower is an educated weed.

Luther Burbank

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Robert Metcalfe

Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

Aaron Neville

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

James Russell Lowell

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

George Stigler

The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

Wayne Dyer

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Khaled Hosseini

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.